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[Asmor]

I've got a compulsive collector personality. I've got thousands and thousands of Magic cards, both online and off, hundreds of movies, etc.

This also means that I have a feeling of discontent when I don't have all the expansions for a game I like. Heck, I don't even have to like the game. I own every expansion for Killer Bunnies & the Quest for the Magic Carrot (there's somewhere between 9 and 11, I think) even though I stopped really enjoying the game less than halfway through that treadmill... I bought Infernal Contraption and Infernal Contraption 2 at the exact same time, having never played the game at all.

Now, however, I'm starting to change. I'm finding I'm attracted to the closed nature of a board/card game. I want to get Race for the Galaxy, for example, but I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in any of its expansions. There's an elegant beauty in the thought of a game as a closed system, the way it was originally designed, and the idea of the game being complete as is.

Of course, I'm not completely over my expansionphilia... Looking forward to the Brood Wars expansion for the SCBG, for example.

Does anyone else ever feel this way?